Researchers Drive Computers Crazy With Frightening Results
In a bid to prove that there is a concept more terrifying than manhood's enslavement by robotic overlords, researchers have successfully induced schizophrenia in a machine.
Recently published findings tell the story of a group of computer scientists at the University of Texas – Austin who created a neural net dubbed "DISCERN." This network was studied specifically with the capacity to piece up natural human language and "remember" stories as relationships between words and sentences, much the same way humans do.
The researchers then began impressive Make out various simple stories that the meshwork dutifully remembered. So out-of-the-way, and then good, right?
Unfortunately, the goal of this entire experiment was to study the mechanisms of schizophrenic psychosis in humans, thusly after creating their virtual mind, the researchers had to forcibly drive the thing crazy. They decreased the network's ability to filter dead unimportant details within the stories, essentially simulating a drastic increase in dopamine within the human brain, and inducing what they hoped would be the virtual equivalent of schizophrenia.
When they next asked the scheme to recall the stories information technology had learned, the computer "began putting itself at the halfway of fantastical, delusional stories that incorporate elements from other stories it had been told to recall." At one point it even claimed responsibility for a terrorist bombing.
This equipment failure in psychological feature operative proves nada by itself, but lends credence to the hypothesis that human schizophrenia is the result of what scientists have dubbed "hyperlearning," the life analogue to — wait a second! The machine willfully claimed responsibility for a terrorist bombardment?
Somewhere, the ghost of Philip K. Hawkshaw is alternately smiling and screaming in terror.
Informant: University of Texas Press Free, via PopSci
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